Neurophysiological markers of early language acquisition: From syllables to sentences

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 481-488

  Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; NEUROPHSIOLOGICAL MARKERS; STRESSS PATTERNS;

NEUROLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHONEME; PHONETICS; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 25144449619     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2005.08.008     Document Type: Review

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